SAMPLE SYLLABUS GEP 204 / 504

BASIC MAPPING: APPLICATIONS AND ANALYSIS GEP 204 (Undergraduate level) GEP 504 (Graduate level)

3 Credits, 4 hours (2 hours lecture, 2 hours lab) Class Meets on Wednesdays from 6:00 - 9:20 PM Gillet Hall, Room 311 Instructor: Dr. Juliana Maantay - Gillet Hall, Room 303 Tel: (718) 960-8574 (718) 960-8574 FAX: (718) 960-8584 e-mail: [email protected] Office Hours: M, W, 4:30-5:30 PM, and by appointment

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

This course serves as an introduction to the world of - how to use, interpret, and analyze maps to obtain information about a wide variety of topics. Discussions include mental maps, aerial photos, remotely-sensed images, computer-assisted , and Geographical Information Systems (GIS). Laboratory work includes digital applications and GIS exercises.

Through a series of lectures, written assignments, map interpretation exercises, and computer cartography and GIS laboratory exercises, students are taught the variety of ways mapping and GIS can be used in the natural and social sciences and well as in many other fields.

The course will cover the history of cartography, basic mapping processes, map projections; scales and generalization, measurements from maps, terrain representation, contour interpretation, topographic features, qualitative and quantitative information, topographic features, use and understanding of cartograms, thematic maps, graphs and , digital map applications, and Geographical Information Systems.

REQUIRED WORKBOOK: (Available at Lehman College Bookstore)

Getting to Know ArcView GIS, Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI), 1997, GeoInformation International, Cambridge, UK

REQUIRED TEXTBOOKS: (Available at Lehman College Bookstore)

Map Use and Analysis, John Campbell, 2001, McGraw Hill, New York, NY Mapping: Ways of Representing the World, Daniel Dorling and David Fairbairn, 1997, Addison Wesley Longman, Ltd., Harlow, UK Maps and Dreams: Indians and the British Columbia Frontier, Hugh Brody, 1998, Waveland Press, Inc., Prospect Heights, Il COURSE REQUIREMENTS: Cartography Laboratory Assignments (2) 20% Written Assignments - Map Use and Interpretation Exercises (2) 20% Class Participation and Attendance 10% Midterm Exam 25% Final Exam 25%

THE LURE OF MAPPING

If you gather a group of people together and ask them about maps, you will always get a lively response. Like the universal fascination with moving water, or the dance of a fire's flame, maps hold some primal attraction for the human animal....

In our consumer society, mapping has become an activity primarily reserved for those in power, used to delineate the "property" of nation states and multinational companies. The making of maps has become dominated by specialists who wield satellites and other complex machinery. The result is that although we have great access to maps, we have also lost the ability ourselves to conceptualize, make and use images of place - skills which our ancestors honed over thousands of years....

Mapping can play a useful role in [the struggle to reclaim the commons]. The destruction of land and culture caused by big business and centralized government can be displayed visually with great effect. The wrong of clearcutting, suburbs on farmland, or toxic dumps which, in isolation, may seem unassociated, begin magically to communicate a larger evil when shown in graphic relationship. The cruel division of classes and the allocation of poverty based on race, sex, or age by the present political economy cannot be hidden when charted across our urban neighborhoods.

Maps can show a vision for the future more clearly than thousands of words...[However,] no map shows reality perfectly. A map is an icon - a potent representation - but only a skeleton of what is real. The mistake of science is that its goal is to describe the world as a complex machine, and to replace the vagaries of nature's chaos with "management." Counter-mapping is about something else: processes and relationships rather than disembodied facts. The notion that only experts can map is the type of disenfranchisement that [counter-mappers] confront and nullify. [The important thing is] the ability to try [to map], to fill the world again with personal and communal descriptions of time and space.

By Doug Aberley, excerpted from "Boundaries of Home: Mapping for Local Empowerment," 1993, New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, BC

CLASS 1 August 29, 2001 Introduction to the Course; History of Cartography (This week's reading Assignment, to be done in advance of Week 2's class, is listed in CLASS 2, below. The reading to be done in advance of Week 3's class is listed in CLASS 3, etc.)

CLASS 2 September 5 Map Elements

Lab Exercise: ArcView GIS Demonstration

Readings: Dorling and Fairbairn, Chapter 1; and Campbell, Chapter 1

CLASS 3 September 12 Basic Mapping Processes

Lab Exercise: Getting to Know ArcView (GTKAV), Chapters 7 & 8

Readings: Dorling and Fairbairn, Chapter 2; and Campbell, Chapter 2

NO CLASSES September 19 and 26

CLASS 4 October 3 Map Projections; and Locational and Land-Partitioning Systems

Lab Exercise: GTKAV, Chapters 9 & 10

Readings: Dorling and Fairbairn, Chapter 3; and Campbell, Chapters 3 & 4

Written Assignment #1: Map Use and Interpretation Exercises (Due 10/17)

CLASS 5 October 10 Map Scales and Generalization Concepts; Measurements from Maps

Lab Exercise: GTKAV, Chapters 11 & 12

Readings: Dorling and Fairbairn, Chapter 4; and Campbell, Chapters 5 & 6

CLASS 6 October 17 Terrain Representation; Contour Interpretation; Topographic Features; Review of Written Assignment #1; Midterm Review

Lab Exercise: GTKAV, Chapters 13 & 14 Readings: Dorling and Fairbairn, Chapter 5; and Campbell, Chapters 8, 9, & 10

CLASS 7 October 24 Midterm Exam: Covers Dorling, Chapters 1-5; and Campbell, Chapters 1-6, 8-10.

CLASS 8 October 31 Qualitative and Quantitative Information

Lab Exercise: GTKAV, Chapters 15 & 16

Readings: Campbell, Chapter 11

CLASS 9 November 7 Cartograms and Special Purpose Maps

Lab Exercise: GTKAV, Chapters 17 & 18

Readings: Campbell, Chapter 14

Written Assignment #2: Selection and Interpretation (Due 11/28)

CLASS 10 November 14 Maps and Graphs

Lab Exercise: GTKAV, Chapters 19 & 20

Readings: Campbell, Chapter 15

CLASS 11 November 21 Remote Sensing and Aerial Photography

Lab Exercise: GTKAV, Chapters 21 & 22; and Lab Assignment #1

Readings: Campbell, Chapters 17 & 18; and Dorling and Fairbairn, Chapter 6

CLASS 12 November 28 Computer-Assisted Cartography and GIS

Lab Exercise: GTKAV, Chapters 23 & 24

Readings: Campbell, Chapters 19 & 21; and Dorling and Fairbairn, Chapter 7

CLASS 13 December 5 Map Mis-Use

Lab Exercise: GTKAV, Chapters 25 & 26

Readings: Dorling and Fairbairn, Chapters 8 & 9; and Campbell, Chapter 16

CLASS 14 December 12 Course Review

Lab Exercise: Lab Assignment #2

CLASS 15 December 19 Final Exam: Covers Dorling, Chapters 6-9; and Campbell, Chapters 11, 14-19, & 21.

FURTHER RECOMMENDED READING:

Aberley, Doug, Boundaries of Home: Mapping for Local Empowerment, 1993, New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, BC

Berthon, Simon, et al, The Shape of the World: The Mapping and Discovery of the Earth, 1991, Rand McNally, New York, NY

Hall, Stephen S., Mapping the Next Millennium: How Computer-Driven Cartography is Revolutionizing the Face of Science, 1993, NY:NY, Vintage Books

Monmonier, Mark, How to Lie With Maps, 1991, Univesity of Chicago Press, Chiacago, IL

Wood, Denis, The Power of Maps, 1992, The Guilford Press, New York, NY

SAMPLE SYLLABUS GEP 205 / 505

PRINCIPLES OF GEOGRAPHIC (GISc) GEP 205 (Undergraduate level) GEP 505 (Graduate level)

3 Credits, 4 hours Class Meets on Thursdays from 6:00 - 9:20 PM Gillet Hall, Room 311

Instructor: Dr. Juliana Maantay - Gillet Hall, Room 303 Tel: (718) 960-8574 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (718) 960- 8574 end_of_the_skype_highlighting FAX: (718) 960-8584 e-mail: [email protected] Office Hours: M, TH, 4:30-5:30 PM, and by appointment

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

This course covers basic concepts and theories of Geographic Information Science (GISc), as well as provides actual hands-on experience with a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software package for computer mapping and data analysis.

Through a series of lectures, GIS laboratory exercises, and the design of a GIS project, students are taught the variety of ways GIS can be used in the natural and social sciences, as well as many other fields. GIS is beneficial to any field using information which is linked to , such as environmental management (including soil science, geology, ecology, hydrology), economic development, real estate, urban planning, public health administration, epidemiology, archaeology, marketing, political science, navigation, and tourism, as well as the traditional geographic fields of cartography, demography, climatology, and natural resources.

Laboratory exercises will include simple database creation, generation of statistics, data analysis, and the production of thematic maps and charts. Demographic, socio-economic, environmental, land use, and health data sets will be utilized in the lab exercises.

REQUIRED TEXTBOOKS:

An Introduction to Geographical Information Systems, Ian Heywood, Sarah Cornelius, and Steve Carter, 1998, Addison Wesley Longman, Ltd., Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ (Available at Lehman College Bookstore)

Cartography: Thematic Map Design, Borden Dent, 1999, William C. Brown Publishers/McGraw-Hill, New York, NY (Available at Lehman College Bookstore and on reserve at Lehman Library) COURSE REQUIREMENTS: GIS Laboratory Exercises and Assignments (8) 50% Written Assignments (2) 15% Class Participation and Attendance 10% Final Exam (Take-Home) 25%

WEEK 1 February 1, 2001 Introduction to the Principles of GIS

Lab Exercise: ArcView GIS Demonstration

Readings: Heywood, Chapter 1

WEEK 2 February 8, 2001 Spatial Data and GIS Functionality

Lab Exercise: ArcView Tutorial

Readings: Heywood, Chapter 2

WEEK 3 February 15, 2001 Thematic Mapping

Lab Assignment #1: Thematic Mapping - Creating a Dot Density Map

Readings: Dent, Chapters 1 and 4

WEEK 4 February 22, 2001 Data Classification

Lab Assignment #2: Thematic Mapping - Creating a Choropleth Map

Readings: Dent, Chapters 5 and 7

Written Assignment #1: Report on GIS Projects on the Internet (Due Week 6)

WEEK 5 March 1, 2001 Charts and Graphs

Lab Assignment #3: Working with Charts

Readings: Dent, Chapter 18

WEEK 6 March 8, 2001 Map Design and Composition Lab Assignment #4: Composing a Map Layout

Readings: Dent, Chapter 13

WEEK 7 March 15, 2001 Spatial Data Structures and Modeling

Lab Work: Complete Lab Assignments #1-4 (ALL LABS #1-4 DUE)

Readings: Heywood, Chapter 3

WEEK 8 March 22, 2001 Attribute Data Management

Lab Assignment #5: Developing an Attribute Database From an Internet Source

Readings: Heywood, Chapter 4

Written Assignment #2: Designing a GIS Project to Solve Real-World Problems in the News. Example: "Using GIS to Build a Case for Sumo Tribal Stewardship of their Land in Nicaragua" (Due Week 14)

WEEK 9 March 29, 2001 Data Acquisition (Where do Data Come From?)

Lab Assignment #6: Geo-Coding

Readings: Heywood, Chapter 5

SPRING BREAK - NO CLASSES

WEEK 10 April 19, 2001 ; and Discussion of GIS Case Studies from Clarke

Lab Assignment #7: Generating Buffers and Using Theme-on-Theme Selection for Proximity Analysis

Readings: Heywood, Chapter 6; and GIS case studies from Clarke (on reserve at Lehman Library)

WEEK 11 April 26, 2001 Analytical Modeling in GIS

Lab Assignment #8: Geo-Processing and Joining

Readings: Heywood, Chapter 7

WEEK 12 May 3, 2001 Output and Decision-Making in GIS

Lab Assignment #8: (Continued) Preparing Final Presentation Layouts

Readings: Heywood, Chapter 8

WEEK 13 May 10, 2001 GIS Project Design and Management; Ethical Issues in GIS; Course Review

Lab Assignment #8: (Continued) Preparing Final Presentation Layouts

Readings: Heywood, Chapter 12; Ground Truth: The Social Implications of GIS, by John Pickles, 1995, Guilford Press, NY, NY, Chapter 9 "Pursuing Social Goals Through Participatory Geographic Information Systems: Redressing South Africa's Historical Political Ecology" (on reserve at Lehman Library)

Take-Home Final Exam Distributed - Due Monday, May 21, 2001

WEEK 14 May 17, 2001 Students' Presentation of Projects - Written Assignment #2

Lab Work: Complete all Lab Assignments #5-8 (ALL LABS #5-8 DUE)

WEEK 15 (Finals Week)

FINAL EXAM (Take-home) due on Monday, May 21, 2000, 6 PM

FURTHER RECOMMENDED READINGS:

BERNHARDSEN, Tor, Geographic Information Systems, 1992, Viak IT, Arendal, Norway BERRY, Joseph, Spatial Reasoning for Effective GIS, 1995, John Wiley and Sons, NY, NY BURROUGH, P.A., Principles of Geographical Information Systems for Land Resources Assessment, 1993, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK HUXHOLD, William E., An Introduction to Urban Geographic Information Systems, 1991, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK ISAAKS, Edward, and SRIVATAVA, R. M., An Introduction to Applied Geostatistics, 1989, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK JOHNSON, Carol, Geographic Inforamtion Systems in Ecology, 1998, Blackwell Science, Oxford, UK PICKLES, John, Ground Truth: The Social Implications of Geographic Information Systems, 1995, The Guilford Press, New York, NY

PERIODICALS AND JOURNALS:

Cultural Survival Quarterly Winter 1995, 18:4, "Geomatics: Who Needs It?"; GeoInfo Systems; Arc User; Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing;

SAMPLE SYLLABUS GEP 350 / GEP 605

Special Projects in Geographical Information Science: Using GIS for Ecology and Environmental Studies GEP 350 / GEP 605

Credits: 4 Hours: 6 (2 lecture, 4 lab) Class Meeting Time: Thursdays, 4:30 - 9:30 pm Class Location: Gillet Hall, Rm. 315 (GIS Lab) Instructor: Dr. Juliana Maantay, Dept. of Geology and Geography Office: Gillet Hall, Rm. 303 Tel: (718) 960-8574 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (718) 960-8574 end_of_the_skype_highlighting Fax: (718) 960-8584 e-mail: [email protected] Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays, 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm, and by appointment

Course Description:

"Special Projects in GIS" has been developed to meet the needs of students using Geographic Information Systems to conduct research in any of the natural and social science disciplines, and who wish to apply more advanced GIS techniques to their analyses. This course will enable the intermediate GIS users to expand their knowledge of current methodologies, and to prepare them to conduct more complex and meaningful analyses involving modeling and simulation.

This term, the course will explore in depth the topic of "GIS for Ecology and Environmental Studies," and will give students the opportunity to design and develop a major GIS project. Through a series of lectures, GIS laboratory work, and the design of a GIS project, students will learn more advanced GIS spatial techniques and their applications to environmental management, urban planning, economic development, risk and hazard assessment, and other arenas of public policy and decision-making.

Course Requirements: · Lab Assignments (40%) · Project Proposal Paper and In-Class Presentation (25%) · Class Discussion Participation (10%) · Final Exam (25%)

Required Texts: · Spatial Reasoning for Effective GIS, by Joseph Berry, 1995, John Wiley, NY, NY · Geographic Information Systems in Ecology, by Carol Johnston, 1998, Blackwell Science, London, UK Additional readings assigned from selected chapters of: (on reserve at Lehman Library) · Quantitative Methods in Landscape Ecology, by Monica Turner and Robert Gardner, 1991, Springer Verlag · Environmental Modeling with GIS, edited by Michael Goodchild, Bradley O. Parks, and Louis T. Steyaert, 1993, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK · Vegetation Mapping: From Patch to Planet, by Roy Alexander and Andrew Millington, 2000, John Wiley and Sons, Ltd., Chichester, UK · Quantitative Geography: Perspectives on Spatial Data Analysis, by A.S. Fotheringham, C. Brunsdon, and M. Charlton, 2000, Sage Publication, London, UK · Cartography: of Spatial Data, by M.J. Kraak and F.J. Orneling, 1996, Pearson Education Ltd. Harlow, UK

CLASS 1 (8/30)

Discussion Topic: Introduction to the Course, and Review of Basic Mapping and GIS Principles

Lab Work: Case Study Analysis and Map Interpretation Problems.

CLASS 2 (9/6)

Discussion Topic: Statistical Mapping

Lab Work: Assignment #1: "Refresher Lab - Creating Choropleth and Proportional Symbol Maps"

Reading Assignment: Kraak, Chapter 7; Johnston, Chapter 1; Fotheringham, Chapter 3.

CLASS 3 (9/13)

Discussion Topic: Cartographic Modeling and Spatial Analysis

Lab Work: Assignment #2: "Generating Buffers and Using Theme-on-Theme Selection for Proximity Analysis"

Reading Assignment: Berry, Topic #7; Goodchild, Chapter 7; Johnston, Chapter 3.

CLASS 4 (9/20)

Discussion Topic: Integrating Vector and Raster Data - Working with Remotely-Sensed Imagery

Lab Work: Assignment #3: "Re-projecting and Editing Spatial Data for Integration with Remotely-Sensed Images" Reading Assignment: Turner, Chapter 3; Berry, Chapter 28, and Topic 6; Johnston, Chapter 9; Alexander and Millington, Chapter 11.

NO CLASS (9/27 - Yom Kippur)

CLASS 5 (10/4)

Discussion Topic: Environmental Spatial Databases and Mapping

Lab Work: Assignment #4: "Working with a Global Environmental Database"

Reading Assignment: Johnston, Chapter 2; Goodchild, Chapter 35.

Written Assignment: Project Proposal Concept due today.

CLASS 6 (10/11)

Discussion Topic: Topographic, Linear, and Temporal Operations

Lab Work: Complete Lab Assignments #1 - 4.

Reading Assignment: Johnston, Chapters 4, 5, and 6.

CLASS 7 (10/18)

Discussion Topic: Methods of Interpolation, Spatial Simulation, and the Use of Geostatistics

Lab Work: Assignment #5: Interpolating to Create a Continuous Surface From Points Using Inverse Distance Weighting"

Reading Assignment: Berry, Topics #2 and 10; and Johnston, Chapter 7.

CLASS 8 (10/25)

Discussion Topic: Modeling in GIS

Lab Work: Assignment #6: "Developing and Implementing a Simple Environmental Model"

Reading Assignment: Berry, Topics #5 and 8; Goodchild, Chapter 31; & Johnston, Chapter 10.

Written Assignment: Draft Project Proposal Paper due today.

CLASS 9 (11/1)

Discussion Topic: Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and GIS

Lab Work: GPS in the field; and Complete Lab Assignments #5 and 6. Reading Assignment: Johnston, Chapter 8; Berry, Chapters 27 and 29.

CLASS 10 (11/8)

Discussion Topic: Spatial Decision Support, Expert Systems, and Rule-Based Reasoning

Lab Work: Assignment #7: "Predictive Modeling for Habitat Suitability: Using a Logistic Regression Model"

Reading Assignment: Turner, Chapter 7; Goodchild, Chapters 24 and 29.

CLASS 11 (11/15)

Discussion Topic: Error Analysis, Data Uncertainty, and Model Calibration

Lab Work: Assignment #8: "Mapping Nearest Neighbors"

Reading Assignment: Berry, Topic #4; Heywood, Chapter 10 (from GEP 205/505); Alexander and Millington, Chapter 7.

NO CLASS (11/22 - Thanksgiving Day)

CLASS 12

Discussion Topic: Modeling and Public Policy

Lab Work: Assignment #9: "Mapping and Analyzing Patterns in Point Data (Cluster Analysis with K-function statistics)"

Reading Assignment: Goodchild, Chapter 30; and Case Study #5.

CLASS 13 (12/6)

Discussion Topic: Student Case Study Presentations and Course Review

Lab Work: Complete Lab Assignments #7 - 9

Reading Assignment: Course reading material review.

Written Assignment: Final Project Proposal Paper due Today

CLASS 14 (12/13)

Discussion Topic: Student Case Study Presentations Lab Work: Complete Lab Assignments #7 - 9.

Written Assignment: Take-home Final (written) Exam

CLASS 15 (FINAL EXAM WEEK) (12/20) Final Exams Due, 4:30 PM

NOTE: Students in GEP 350/GEP 605 have varying levels of GIS skills and background knowledge. To ensure as far a possible that everyone is "on the same page," and to minimize the effort required to understand the topics of spatial analysis, simulation, and modeling to be covered in this course, students are urged to review the following material, especially as necessary to supplement any known or potential area of deficiency. All students will be expected to have a grasp of the rudiments of map composition and design, a familiarity with general GIS theory, a reasonable understanding of basic statistics, and a working knowledge of ArcView GIS software and Windows. For general information on thematic mapping, map composition, and chart design, review Cartography: Thematic Map Design, by Borden Dent, 1999, McGraw Hill, New York, NY. See especially Chapters 13, 14, 15 and 18, regarding map composition, use of color, typeface selection, and graphing, and Chapters 4, 5, and 7, regarding thematic mapping. Chapter 6 is an excellent overview of GIS. This book is available on reserve at the Lehman Library. For an accessible and clear review of geostatistics, peruse An Introduction to Applied Geostatistics, by Edward Isaaks and R. M. Srivastava, 1989, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK Concentrate on Chapters 1 through 4 on descriptive statistics. On reserve at Lehman Library. For an introduction to GIS theory and concepts, consult Geographical Information Systems and Computer Cartography, by Christopher Jones, 1997, Addison Wesley Longman, Ltd, Essex, UK; OR An Introduction to Geographical Information Systems, by Ian Heywod, Sarah Cornelius, and Steve Carver, 1998, Prentice Hall/Addison Wesley Longman, Ltd.

STUDENT PROJECT PROPOSAL PRESENTATION:

Each student will individually prepare and make an oral presentation to the class of his/her project proposal research and resulting paper. The presentations will be made in Classes 13 and 14, and are to be 15-20 minutes in length. The presentations should cover the following topics: the title of the project; the purpose of the project (hypothesis, problem to be solved, etc.); brief background of the issues; the data sets required; the methodology to be used; the flow chart of operations; the data sets that have been acquired or located; any preliminary mapping carried out; and what further research may stem from this project.

PROJECT PROPOSAL PAPER:

Each student will individually develop a term paper detailing a GISc project proposal for independent research. This is to be a realistic project, one feasible of being carried out by you for an independent study course, such as GEH 490/GEP 690, Workshop in GISc Research. In Class 5, you will submit a brief (one or two paragraphs) synopsis of your project concept, which I will comment on and return to you. This should be developed further in the next few weeks into a full draft, which should include the same topics as the oral presentation (see above) as well as a literature review of related projects done previously; an outline of your search for relevant data; and a rough draft of a project flow chart. This first draft of your paper is due in Class 8, and will be returned with comments. The final project proposal paper is due in Class 13, and should contain about 3,000-5,000 words.

SAMPLE SYLLABUS GEH 490 / GEP 690

Independent Research in Geography GEH 490 Workshop in GISc Research GEP 690 4 credits; Instructor: Dr. Juliana Maantay; tel: (718) 960-8574 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (718) 960-8574 end_of_the_skype_highlighting; e- mail: [email protected] Class Meeting Place: Gillet, Room 315 (Cartography Lab); Class Meeting Times: TBA; Class participants will meet at least four scheduled times, and as needed.

Course Description: This course is intended to provide the student with a solid grounding in research design and methodology by designing and conducting a GIS research project. Projects are to be substantive and original research efforts conforming to generally acceptable professional geographical practices and techniques.

Required Reading: "Introduction to Scientific Geographic Research," by L Haring, JF Lounsbury, JW Frazier, 1992, Wm. C. Brown Publishers, Dubuque, IA (Available at Lehman College Bookstore)

Course Timetable:

Week 1 - Meet to discuss course requirements, reading materials, and preliminary research concepts

Weeks 1-4: Read Chapters 1, 2, and 3 ("The Nature of Scientific Research," "Defining Geographic Problems," and "Formation of the Research Design"); · Select research topic, and conduct literature review on topic, examine other research on topic; · Prepare written Initial Research Design, including hypothesis or questions to be answered; · Conduct a Preliminary Data Needs Assessment and Data Acquisition;

Week 5 - Presentation of Preliminary Research Design and literature review

Weeks 5-8: Read Chapters 4 and 6 ("Acquisition of Relevant Data," and "Analysis of Data"); · Refine research methodology; · Capture and input necessary data; · Preliminary data analysis;

Week 9 - Interim Progress Report on research projects Weeks 9-12: Read Chapter 7 ("Automation in Geographic Research: Searching Sources, Information Capture, Mapping, and GIS"); · Analysis of data; · Preliminary map and charts production; · Prepare preliminary findings;

Week 13 - Presentation of Research Results

Week 13-15: Read Chapter 8 ("Writing Geographic Research Reports"); · Prepare final maps and charts and written report of findings;

Week 15 - Final Project Due (all materials to be submitted no later than December 19, 2001)